A nursing student in Georgia woke up to find the $20 he invested in the cryptocurrency Rocket Bunny exploded in value to over $1trillion due to a glitch in the Coinbase app - but sadly he won't be able to cash in.
Chris Williamson shared his stunning story last week after he checked his investment on Tuesday morning and saw that it had ballooned to $1,189,313,417,915.16.
'I woke up, it's like 9am and I always check my phone to check how my crypto to see how it's doing and I'm just like, "Naw, I'm sleeping,"' Williamson told FOX 5.
'I look at it again and I'm like… at that point I fall out of my bed, literally.'
Unfortunately when Williamson attempted to move the newly-found crypto fortune into another digital wallet, it showed a much lower price.
Coinbase later confirmed that his balance was shown in error and will be corrected.
Chris Williamson, a nursing student in Georgia, woke up to find the $20 he invested in the cryptocurrency Rocket Bunny exploded in value to over $1.4trillion due to a glitch in the Coinbase app - but sadly he won't be able to cash in
Williamson shared his stunning story last week after he checked his investment on Tuesday morning and saw that it had ballooned to $1,189,313,417,915.16
Rocket Bunny is a new cryptocurrency 'deflationary token with a max circulating supply of 777 Quadrillion' according to their website
Describing his frantic phone call to a friend, Williamson said: 'I got him on the phone and I’m like: "Dude, you need to help me figure out how to sell this now!" He's like: "Chris, something's wrong."'
He contacted both Coinbase, the cryptocurrency exchange platform he uses, and Rocket Bunny. A representative from Coinbase simply replied that they were looking into the issue, while Rocket Bunny did not immediately respond, Williamson said.
'So, that's when I'm like, 'Okay, I'm just going to have fun with it at this point.' So, I went to Twitter,' said Williamson.
Williamson tweeted to both Coinbase and Rocket Bunny, making light of the situation, writing: 'If I'm not invited to the coinbase Christmas party this year I'm going to be ticked off.
'I think I'm being a pretty good sport about this considering ya'll got my account looking like Elon Musk.'
'I thought for sure because he trolls people all the time,' he said of Musk's social media presence. 'I am hoping he's actually saw it and maybe he's been following it, but I don't know. That is an Elon Musk wallet.'
While he figured the cryptocurrency exchange platform would fix his grossly-inflated account balance, Williamson was surprised to see the amount actually increased in the days following his discovery of the initial glitch.
He claimed his Coinbase account is currently frozen until the issue could be cleared up.
However, Coinbase Support provided a vague response to DailyMail.com when asked about Williamson's account.
A representative said his account was never locked and would not say when his balance will return to normal.
'Support responded to the user on June 18. Also, I wanted to clarify that the user's account was never locked and he never lost access to the account,' the representative said.
As for Williamson, he's realistic about the whole thing, knowing full well that the massive account balance is nothing more than a glitch.
However he did jokingly write to Coinbase Support that he would settle for 5-cents on the dollar.
'You know when you look at it, it's like you know there's no way I’m ever going to get this amount of money,' he said.
Williamson had invested his $20 in Rocket Bunny tokens, a new cryptocurrency 'with a max circulating supply of 777 Quadrillion,' according to their website.
'I am hoping he's actually saw it and maybe he's been following it, but I don't know. That is an Elon Musk wallet' Williamson noted after tagging the Tesla billionaire in one of his tweets
Oddly enough, Williamson says he received only a tepid response from Coinbase Support over the insane amount of money caused by the glitch
In comparison, the much more popular Bitcoin has a total maximum supply of 21 million, but tumbled almost 10 percent on Monday over China's expanding crackdown on bitcoin mining in thin liquidity for the losses.
Bitcoin fell as low as $32,094 to its lowest in 12 days, dragging smaller coins like Rocket Bunny down. It was last down 8.3 percent, on course for its biggest daily drop in a month.
The world's biggest cryptocurrency has lost over 20 percent in the last six days alone and is down by half from its April peak of almost $65,000. Still, it has still gained over 10 percent this year.
Meanwhile, Williamson is taking the whole experience in stride.
'The ongoing joke right now between me and like my friends in Coinbase and one of the emails I sent them was like: "Look, I need y'all to let me know what's going on because I got a mega-yacht company ready to build me a penguin-shaped yacht,"' he said in jest.
'So, you know, let me know.'
This Rocket Bunny tokens price graph shows the ebb and flow of the cryptocurrency 'tokenonomy' which shows a dip in price around the time Williamson invested his $20
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